Why you can take it slow?
Its been difficult, I know it is. For you, for me and for everybody across the world. Be it with the stressful continuous hours of work from home, with absolutely no time with your family, who are scared, who are really scared that life will continue like this. My mother misses her daily dose of gossip with the neighbors', she misses picking the right lady's finger from the nearby grocery store. My 18 year old brother who just joined his B.A Literature in one of the most famous colleges in South India, sleeps his way through his never ending Zoom sessions, he asks me “Will I have a future?”. My nephew who just got enrolled in KG-1 at Dubai, regardless of not understanding what he is going through, regardless of not knowing what is going on around the world, regardless of not really knowing (which I know he will sometime in the future) what he is missing by the online classes, he sits through them, my sister asks me, “I’m afraid his whole life will turn online now!”.
These are fearful times to live in, we as a whole population are grief stricken, not one day goes without somebody near or far, being either affected by this vicious, uncaring, unimaginable virus of a thing that has struck. I first took in my stride and started to take it day by day during the first wave of the virus, but then we are humans we are ought to break at a certain point of time and I did, days soon became months, and I hope, I really do hope that months do not turn into years. God help us all, everything that is happening to us does not happen without a reason, we as people have failed God miserably at times. Maybe God just wanted to try putting us in this situation and see if we really changed, and the change has already begun with people volunteering and running around even though they know their lives are in danger and they can put their families lives also in danger, I see people still going out to help someone. The neighbour video calls my mother to ask my mother the recipe for the Lasagna which she effortlessly mastered during the whole lockdown scene. The grocery storekeeper comes home first thing from the market and give us the best vegetables for the day , and he says “You dont have to give me cash, send it via Googlepay”. My nephew enjoys his online class, he already has learnt some tricks to run away and get to play around, when the teacher scolds him or he does not like the class he runs to his mother( this is one thing we kind missed out, I guess). My brother has started his own youtube page where he just posts random videos of himself doing stupid things, he says it is a passive income flow (which he actually learnt from an Online course from Danlok), this is amazing. I have not even heard of Danlok and I am 23, this is how life turns out to be. It is all in taking whatever it throws at you slow, if your manager bugs you to complete the deliverable by Friday, tell them you will and work on it, I am sure you will get it done by Thursday. Its all about our mindset, we will get through this no matter what. Stay strong people , stay strong. Eventually everything will be okay!
As Jack Pearson, tells us in “This is Us”, “When life gives you lemon, make some lemonade, if not make something with it”.
I strongly recommend you all to take some time off Social Media and decide for yourself that you will consume only things that you want to and nothing else, it really helps. Trust me. Trust yourself. Trust the universe, it will show you wonders.
